The process information within Shopfloor-Online MES is of course supplemented with all the other factory data that is within its scope, e.g. production orders, product being made, equipment used, materials consumed and created. The whole is extremely valuable for diagnostic and traceability purposes, as well as providing greater insight from an analytical perspective. The more sources of information captured the greater the value, for example:
- Job Tracking – know precisely when production runs ran, what product was being made, correlate the process parameters with the product being manufactured
- Quality – see the interaction between process parameters (like oven temperatures) and measured characteristics (like hardness)